Sappadino

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Etymology

Borrowed from Italian sappadino.

Proper noun

Sappadino

  1. The Germanic lect, a form of Tyrolean Bavarian, which is spoken in Sappada in Italy.
    • 1986, Linguistic minorities in countries belonging to the European community, page 85:
      The Austrian scholar, M. Hurnung, has published a dictionary of Sappadino; the socio-linguistic situation in Sauria/Zahre has been analysed by N. Denison[.]
    • 2010, Thomas Hanneforth, Gisbert Fanselow, Language and Logos: Studies in theoretical and computational linguistics:
      Similar problems arise also with other languages, such as Old Italian, Old High German, Old English, Old French, which have traditionally been characterized as V2 languages, Rhaetoromance, Mocheno, Sappadino, Cimbrian.
    • 2011, Michael T. Putnam, Studies on German-language Islands, page 305:
      The same is true of other German dialects spoken in the Italian Alps like Sappadino (Plodarisch) and Mocheno, which also display regular subject inversion, but allow for V3 orders: (the Sappadino data in (5) are reported from Poletto[)...]

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